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Where did the summer go? This year the BlueHat Security Conference moved forward in the schedule to late September. Next year it will settle into a steady orbit of early October moving forward. With that change in schedule, it is hard to believe that it is time to reveal the schedule for BlueHat v18.

The External Control API in Roku and Roku TV products allow unauthorized access via a DNS Rebind attack. This can result in remote device control and privileged device and network information to be exfiltrated by an attacker.

ag-grid is an advanced data grid that is library agnostic. ag-grid is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) via Angular Expressions, if AngularJS is used in combination with ag-grid.

Adobe Flash Player versions 28.0.0.161 and earlier have an exploitable use after free vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.

Adobe Flash Player versions 29.0.0.113 and earlier have an exploitable out-of-bounds read vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to information disclosure.

Parameter corruption in NDIS filter driver in Intel Online Connect Access 1.9.22.0 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via local access.

SSRF (Server Side Request Forgery) in Cockpit 0.13.0 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or send TCP traffic to intranet hosts via the url parameter, related to use of the discontinued aheinze/fetch_url_contents component.

On January 3rd, 2018, Microsoft released an advisory and security updates related to a newly discovered class of hardware vulnerabilities involving speculative execution side channels (known as Spectre and Meltdown) that affect AMD, ARM, and Intel CPUs to varying degrees. If you haven’t had a chance to learn about these issues, we recommend watching The Case of Spectre and Meltdown by the team at TU Graz from BlueHat Israel, reading the blog post by Jann Horn (@tehjh) of Google Project Zero, or reading the FOSDEM 2018 presentation by Jon Masters of Red Hat.

The decode_init function in libavcodec/utvideodec.c in FFmpeg 2.8 through 3.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Out of array read) via an AVI file with crafted dimensions within chroma subsampling data.

An exploitable cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the filter functionality of the delayed_job_web rails gem version 1.4. A specially crafted URL can cause an XSS flaw resulting in an attacker being able to execute arbitrary javascript on the victim's browser. An attacker can phish an authenticated user to trigger this vulnerability.